New Delhi, Apr 21: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the world is looking towards India to ensure global peace in these times of conflict. and emphasised that this growing profile is due to its “cultural image, growing capabilities, and foreign policy”. Prime Minister, Narendra Modi said this while inaugurating the 2550th Bhagwan Mahaveer...
Murshidabad, Apr 21 : Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday came down heavily on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, accusing her of spreading lies about the CAA and misguiding people, particularly the Muslim community. None in the earth can stop the implementation of granting Indian citizenship to those refugees, who left Bangladesh, Pakistan...
Katihar, Apr 21: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said that NDA during its ten years of rule in the country had promoted and protected the rights of Backwards and Extremely Backwards and cautioned the people that INDIA bloc would trample them if voted to power at the Centre after ongoing Lok Sabha...
Mathura (UP), Apr 20: Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Saturday that the ongoing Lok Sabha election is an election to decide the future of the country, in which on one side there are corrupt parties and on the other side there is Narendra Modi, who has not made a single allegation of corruption....
Nanded (Maharashtra), April 20 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that the INDI alliance have come together to save and protect their own corrupt people and so the voters have completely rejected them in the very first phase and first day of polling for the Lok Sabha elections. Ahead of the second...
Bhagalpur, Apr 20: Accusing BJP-led NDA of intending to scrap the constitution, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said the INDIA alliance was contesting the Lok sabha election on the plank of protecting the constitution to save the democracy and claimed that the NDA would not get more than 150 seats. Expressing confidence and solidarity in...
New Delhi, April 19: The first of the seven-phase Lok Sabha polls on Friday remained largely peaceful with voter turnout exceeding 60% at 7 in the evening. With this, the fate of as many as 1,625 candidates across 21 states and union territories (UTs) have been locked in EVMs (electronic voting machines). After the polling...
Nagpur, Apr 19 : The world’s shortest woman, Jyoti Kishanji Amge, turned up to cast her vote in the Lok Sabha elections, here on Friday morning. Jyoti, who stands only 62.8 centimetres tall and was born on December six, 1993, arrived with her family members carrying her in the arms to avoid huge crowds...
Kannur, Apr 19: District Collector and Chief Returning Officer Arun K Vijayan, has suspended five polling officials, on the charges of failure to maintain the secrecy of the home voting process on a 92-year-old voter E Devi at the Kalliasseri Assembly constituency on Friday. The District Collector suspended the Special Polling officer, Polling Assistant, Micro...
Aizawl, Apr 19: Continuing a trend seen in the last Lok Sabha elections, Mizoram recorded a low voter turnout on Friday, with only 52.62 per cent of the total 8,56,364 eligible voters casting their votes by 5:00 PM. During the first phase of the general elections to the Lok Sabha, Mizoram went to the...
Wayanad, Apr 19: BJP National President JP Nadda has said that Rahul Gandhi is contesting from Wayanad in Kerala because he knows that he will lose if he contests in his constituency Amethi in Uttar Pradesh in this Lok Sabha election. Addressing a roadshow in Sulthan Bathery as part of electioneering for BJP State...
Amroha (UP), April 19: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday attacked the Samajwadi Party (SP) and Congress and said that the people of the INDI alliance are rejecting the faith and devotion that has been going on for thousands of years just for the sake of vote bank. Addressing an election rally here, the...
Imphal Apr 19: The first phase of the election in Manipur for two Parliamentary constituencies concluded at 4 PM on Friday with reports of firing, EVM snatching, and violence. A person sustained bullet wounds at Moirang Kampu, Imphal East when unidentified persons resorted to firing. At Thamnapokpi, Moirang some unidentified persons fired near the...
New Delhi, Apr 19 : Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday urged the people voting in the first phase of the Lok Sabha election to come out in large numbers and vote for the country’s development, security, unity, and sovereignty. In a series of posts on social media, Shah, while appealing to the people...
Shillong, April 19 : Polling began peacefully for the two Lok Sabha seats in Meghalaya at around 7 am on Friday amid tight security, a poll official said. The voters began queuing up at polling stations hours before they were allowed in at 7 a.m. “We can see the enthusiasm to participate in the...
Chennai, Apr 19 : Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK President M.K.Stalin on Friday expressed the hope that the INDIA bloc will win the Lok Sabha polls. Talking to reporters after casting his ballot at a polling booth in Chennai city, Mr Stalin said he has done his democratic duty and sounded confident that...
Kottayam/Pathanamthitta, Apr 18: Union Defense Minister Rajnath Singh commented on Thursday that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has run away from Uttar Pradesh to Kerala, but the people of Wayanad have also decided to part ways with him this time. Criticizing Rahul Gandhi’s decision to contest from Wayanad, suggesting that even the people of Wayanad have...
New Delhi, Apr 18 : The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its judgement on a batch of petitions seeking direction to the Election Commission and the Centre to ensure that voters can verify through Voter-Verifiable Paper Audit trail (VVPAT). A bench comprising Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Dipankar Datta after hearing all the parties for...
New Delhi, Apr 18 : Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on Thursday successfully conducted flight-test of Indigenous Technology Cruise Missile (ITCM) from the Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur off the coast of Odisha. During the test, all subsystems performed as per expectation. The missile performance was monitored by several range sensors like Radar, Electro...
Mumbai, April 18 : The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday attached the properties of Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty and her husband Ripu Sudan Kundra, alias Raj Kundra. In a statement, the agency announced its decision to provisionally attach immovable and movable properties belonging to Ripu Sudan Kundra, also known as Raj Kundra, under the...
New Delhi, April 18: A high-stake political battle is set to kick off on Friday with as many as 102 parliamentary constituencies across 21 states and union territories (UTs) going to the hustings in the first of the seven-phase Indian general election. Along with parliamentary seats, 92 assembly constituencies in Arunachal and Sikkim will also...